Kohima, March 23 (MExN): The audit reports of the Comptroller & Auditor General (CAG) of India on Government of Nagaland for the year ended 31st March 2011 (Report No. 1 & 2) said that absence of long term Perspective plan, state action plan and District Action Plans in the state resulted in uneven planning and execution of projects. The overall increase in road length was only 14.60 % and conversion of un-surfaced roads to surfaced road was 3.40 % during 2003-2009.
The report said there was non/short realization of Sales Tax on Works Contract amounting to Rs. 11.75 crore and delay in deposit of tax realized amounting to Rs. 1.48 crore in the ten test checked divisions.
Payment amounting to Rs. 10.10 crore were made on the basis of fictitious measurements recorded in the measurement books. Excess payments amounting to Rs. 3. 73 crore were made due to duplication of entries in the Measurement Books and for work not actually executed.
Joint physical verification of selected projects revealed several deficiencies in execution of projects as well as payments made for work not actually executed, it said.
Maintenance of records in most of the divisions test-checked was poor and several vital records like Register of works, Work Abstract, Contractor’s Ledger, Register of Measurement Books etc. were not maintained.
Grade III and IV staff were entertained in excess of sanctioned strength, especially in Dimapur (318), Zunheboto (204), and Kohima (South) Division (183). Over and above this, the Department has engaged 1534 work charged employees on scale of pay and 5151 on fixed pay.
The report said there was no mechanism to watch transfer of funds to other divisions by Kohima (South) Division and funds amounting to Rs. 0.73 crore were not received in four divisions.
The report added that there were instances where payments are made either without entry in cash book or by recording higher/lower amounts than actually paid . Rs. 1.77 crore and Rs. 13.47 crore was drawn from Bank Account by Dimapur and Longleng divisions respectively, during 2010-11 without corresponding entries in the Cash Book.
On Chapter –IV which deals with Revenue Receipts of the state government, the report said that it contains one Performance Review on Utilization of declaration forms in Interstate Trade and one draft paragraph.
The report said during the period from 2003-04 to 2009-10, the department/government accepted audit observations involving Rs. 12.74 crore, of which Rs. 0.46 crore only had been recovered till September 2010. The amount recovered by the department was only 3.61% of the amount which was accepted by them.
The report said due to selection of a bidder who had quoted a lesser amount in respect of lease of Tourist Lodge Kohima, Government sustained revenue loss of Rs. 23.02 lakh. Failure to invoke specific clauses of the agreement resulted in revenue amounting to Rs. 15.90 lakh remaining unrealized. Besides security deposit of Rs. Four lakh was also not forfeited.
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